“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”

“Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.”

“And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.”

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”

“I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.”